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Alias: Dukun AS, Nasib Kelewang, Datuk Maringgi

Birth Name: Ahmad Suradji

On May 2, 1997, self-described Indonesian witch doctor Ahmad Suradji was arrested by authorities after three bodies were found buried in a sugarcane plantation near his home on the outskirts of Medan, the capital of North Sumatra, Indonesia.
Ahmad, also known as Nasib Kelewang or Datuk Maringgi, initially confessed to killing 16 women over a five-year slaying period. Upon further searching of Ahmad's property, clothes and watches belonging to 25 missing women were uncovered. After further questioning the 48-year-old cattle breeder increased the body count of his 11-year rampage to 42. Ahmad's three wives, all sisters, were also arrested for helping him commit the murders and hide/dispose of the corpses. The oldest wife, Tumini, was tried as his accomplice in…

Birth Name: Aileen Carol Wuornos

Aileen Carol Wuornos was an American female serial killer who was born on February 29, 1956 and died on October 9, 2002. She claimed that she killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990 in self-defense. She stated that all the men tried to rape her or actually raped her when she was a prostitute and their deaths was a result of her trying to defend herself. The court found her guilty to murdering six of her allegedly seven victims and sentenced her with the death penalty. The State of Florida executed her death sentence on October 9, 2002 with lethal injection.
Early life
Aileen Wuornos was born in Rochester, Michigan, on February 29, 1956, and her birth name…

Birth Name: Albert Henry DeSalvo

Albert Henry DeSalvo is also known as The Boston Strangler and was born on September 3, 1931 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. His father Frank was an alcoholic who was very violent towards his wife, Charlotte. Frank once knocked all of his wife's teeth out and broke her fingers by bending them all the way back. Albert did not have a normal childhood; he was cruel to animals and tortured them. He also shoplifted and stole many items that made him encounter the law on numerous occasions.
Albert was arrested when he was 12 years old for robbery and battery in November 1943 and was sent to Lyman School for Boys in December 1943. Lyman School for Boys is a school that…

AKA(s): The Bitsa Park Maniac, The Chessboard Killer

Birth Name: Alexander Yuryevich "Sasha" Pichushkin

Alexander Yuryevich "Sasha" Pichushkin (Russian, born 9 April 1974 in Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast), also known as The Chessboard Killer and The Bitsa Park Maniac, is a Russian serial killer known to have murdered at least 48 people. He is believed to have killed up to 61–63 people in southwest Moscow's Bitsa Park, where several of the victims' bodies were found.In 1992, Alexander Pichushkin committed his first murder as a student and escalated his crimes in 2001. Russian media believe that Pichushkin may have been motivated by a twisted competition with Russia's most notorious serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted in 1992 of killing 52 children and young women in a 12 year killing spree. Pichushkin said his aim was…

Alvin & Judith Ann Neelley

Birth Name: Amelia Elizabeth Dyer

Amelia Dyer was Victorian England's most notorious "baby farm" killer and was responsible for the deaths of perhaps 400 infants in her care. She was tried and convicted by a jury who found her guilty after only four minutes of deliberation. Dyer was executed by hanging in 1896 in London.
Baby Farms & Amelia Dyer
At the time, newborn babies – especially those born out of wedlock – were commonly "adopted" by others in return for a small fee from the parents, paid in installments or upfront. Amelia Dyer's baby farm was a horrendously squalid environment where babies were starved and neglected to save money and increase the profitably of the venture.
As Dyer's ruthlessness increased over time, she began…

AKA(s): The Beast Of Ukraine, The Terminator, Citizen O

Birth Name: Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko

Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko is a Ukrainian serial killer that is also known as "The Beast of Ukraine", "The Terminator" and "Citizen O". He was born on July 25, 1959 in Zhytomyr, Ukrainian SSR and was sentenced to life in prison.Early Life
Anatoly spent most of his life in an orphanage. He has one brother, Valentin who is thirteen years older than him. His father, Yuri Onoprienko fought in the Great Patriotic War and was greatly recognized for that. Anatoly's mother died when he was four years old, and he was then cared for by his grandparents and aunt. He was later sent to live in the orphanage in Privitnoe village which he said made him destined to become a serial…

AKA(s): The Butcher of Rostov The Red Ripper The Forest Strip Killer The Rostov Ripper

Birth Name: Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo

The Soviet Hannibal Lecter. As a kid Andrei's brother was taken by the villagers and eaten during times of famine. Or so he said. As an adult, while Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was living a double life as a married man, Communist Party member and a teacher, Andrei, enjoyed killing children with impunity.
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo -- a sexually impotent dirty old man from hell -- lived in Rostov, 500 miles from Moscow, where he preyed mostly on children. He stalked most of his victims in train and bus stations, and had a penchant for disembowelment and mutilation. He was also a cannibal and a sadist. His macabre twelve year killing spree was finally uncovered in 1992. Chikatilo wasn't exceptionally crafty…

Birth Name: Anna Maria Zwanziger

Anna Maria Zwanziger was a serial killer in the German state of Bavaria who murdered four people while serving as their housekeeper. Her preferred method of killing her victims was arsenic poisoning, which she secretly placed in the food and drink of her victims over an extended period of time. Her crimes were uncovered in 1809 and she was beheaded in July 1811.MurdersAnna Maria Zwanziger was described as being "ugly, stunted, without attraction of face, figure, [or] speech.” Her early life was marked by an ill-fated marriage to an alcoholic husband who drank his inheritance before dying by the time Anna Maria was 40 years old. She soon began to search for a new husband.Zwanziger became the housekeeper of a…